How do I want to feel? The link between emotion goals and difficulties in emotion regulation in borderline personality disorder.

Clinical implications BPD individuals' emotion regulation is linked to maladaptive emotion goals. Helping people at risk to manipulate their emotion goals to be more context sensitive may enhance well-being and serve as a therapeutic tool in practice. Limitations The present research only considered the context of collaboration and confrontation, but other contexts more relevant for individuals with BPD (i.e., self-harm situations) might provide valuable information about their difficulties in emotion regulation. To study contextualized emotion goals in clinical populations, longitudinal rather than cross-sectional designs should be considered.